Environmental Photography Award 2024

This award was launched in 2021, in honour of the Foundation’s 15th anniversary. It has the dual purpose of celebrating the incredible beauty of the planet and highlighting the environmental challenges faced through five categories: Polar Wonders, Into the Forest, Ocean Worlds, Humanity versus Nature, Change Makers: Reasons for Hope.

Photographic art, with its immediate and universal language, represents a formidable vehicle for raising awareness. It reinforces, in a virtuous way, the process of awareness on major environmental issues, such as biodiversity, climate and the ocean.

Environmental photographers can encourage them to change, to innovate, to invent sustainable solutions in order to better rethink the lives and the economies. They reveal a real “field of possibilities” for new generations who aspire to a more harmonious relationship with Nature.

The photographs – almost 10,000 images participated in the 3rd edition of the competition in 2023 – are carefully selected by a jury of internationally renowned professional photographers for their technical and aesthetic excellence but also, and above all, for the relevance and strength of their message.

The exhibitions of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation’s Environmental Photography Award have already travelled to Italy, San Marino, Spain, the United States and France.

Award Categories

• Polar Wonders: Images depicting landscapes, wildlife and local communities in the Arctic and Antarctic polar regions.
• Ocean Worlds: Images that illustrate the richness of the seas and oceans, whether on or under the surface, and showcase the diversity of marine wildlife.
• Into the forest: Images that highlight the beauty of the flora and fauna that make up the forest ecosystem and the lives of native communities in the boreal, temperate and tropical forests.
• Humanity Versus Nature: Images that depict the conflicting relationship between humans and nature, and the negative impact of human activities on the environment: issues related to the consequences of climate change (droughts, wildfires, extreme climate events…), the loss of biodiversity (endangered species, disastrous interactions between humans and wildlife…), as well as the depletion of the world’s water resources.
• Change Makers: Reasons for Hope- Images that highlight the efforts and actions implemented globally by communities and organisations that help build a more sustainable world and more harmonious relationship between man and nature. It aims to demonstrate hope for Humanity and for the Planet.

Award Information

• The Environmental Photographer of the Year (chosen by the jury among the 5 category winners)
  • The title “Environmental Photographer of the Year 2024”.
  • 5,000 € grant.
  • Invitation (including travel and accommodation) to visit the Amazon Research Station of the International University SEK, and to do a photo documentary in the field, in the heart of the Ecuadorian jungle.
  • Invitation (including travel and accommodation) to the opening ceremony of the exhibition in the Principality of Monaco.
  • Public relations support of the Foundation through its communication channels, including social media, press, and newsletter.
• Category Winners
  • 1,000 € grant for each of the 5 category winners.
  • Public relations support of the Foundation through its communication channels, including social media, press, and newsletter.
• Public Award & Students’ Choice (to be chosen for each across all categories)
  • 500 € grant for the Public Award winning image.
  • 500 € grant for the Student’s Choice winning image.
• Shortlisted Photographers
  • Featured in the Environmental Photography Award 2024 exhibition in Monaco and on its international tour.
  • Published in the Environmental Photography Award 2024 book.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Award is global and open to photographers of all nationalities who will be aged 18 or over on 5th November 2023.
• It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that they have read and will abide by these rules and Photocrowd’s Terms and Conditions. By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to these rules, that their entry complies with these rules, and that they will be liable to the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Photocrowd and their licensees in respect of any damages or losses incurred as a breach of the rules.
• Employees or agents of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Photocrowd, their families or other persons connected with this promotion (excluding the sponsors) are not eligible to enter. Also, ineligible to enter are any persons benefiting (on the day of the submission of the photograph(s)) from the Foundation’s support, either directly or indirectly.
• Proof of eligibility must be provided upon request. Use of a false name or other false details will result in disqualification.

For more information, visit Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.